As the flag carrier airline of Mexico, Aeroméxico is constantly working to see how they can improve their customer experience. For the airliner it began with ensuring the wealth of data they had on customers was available and actionable for use in Optimizely.
Aeroméxico used their already strong A/B testing practice to jumpstart detailed and customer-focused personalization efforts through the booking process. They hypothesized that if they personalized the booking flow process based on prior customer behavior, they would streamline the process and enable customers to purchase flights more efficiently.
In this webinar, Aeroméxico's Angie Romero and Optimizely's Alek Toumert will discuss how Aeroméxico went about organizing their data to enable testing and personalization together by leveraging this data, ultimately focusing on building better customer experiences.
Join this webinar to learn:
- How to think about structuring your data for personalization
- How to create hypotheses about personalization campaigns from existing a/b tests
- How personalizing customer experience along your primary journeys enables higher lift
Aeroméxico: Improving the Booking Experience with Data-First Personalization
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Improving the Booking
Experience with Data-First
Personalization
Angie Romero & Alek Toumert
How AeroMexico Utilized Data to Jumpstart
Personalization
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Revenue, share of wallet, funnel conversion,
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OUR SOLUTION
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“Our success is a function of
how many experiments
we do per year, per month,
per week, per day.”
“Instead of saying ‘I have an
idea,’ what if you said
‘I have a new hypothesis,
let’s go test it.’
“Our company culture
encourages
experimentation and
free flow of ideas.”
“One of the things I’m
most proud of, and I think
what is the key to our
success, is this testing
framework we’ve built.”
Experimentation is the
Next Great Business
Transformation
Jeff Bezos Larry Page
Mark Zuckerberg
Satya Nadella
The Surprising
Power of Online
Experiments
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of US online adults have chosen, recommended, or paid more
for a brand that has personalized an experience or service
Gartner, “Vendor Landscape: Personalization Solution Providers, Q3 2017”
“In the online world, businesses have the opportunity to
develop very deep relationships with customers...so that
you can use that individualized knowledge of the
customer to accelerate their discovery process.”
Jeff Bezos
“Accurately predicting the movies Netflix members
will love is a key component of our service”
Neil Hunt, Chief Product Officer
78%
Customers expect more personalized experiences
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We’re Proud to Work With
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21 of the Fortune 100 have Chosen Optimizely to Drive Their Digital Experience
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Time Spent
Listening to
Music
Bring users
back more
often
Increase time
spent per
visit
Output Metric
Input Metrics
New Artist
Notification
Recommend
ations
Create
Playlists
Discover
Weekly Views
Input Metrics
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Audience First
Defined audience(s)
View problem(s) just for that audience
Assess size of audience problem / opportunity
Audience Analysis
Defined OR exploratory audience(s)
Validate problem exists through segmentation
Assess size of audience problem / opportunity
Evaluate the initial problem statements - is this really an everyone problem?
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Refine
Expand
Example Expansion of Criteria:
● 1 page view in 7 days
● 3 page views in 14 days
Example Refinement of Criteria:
● 5 page views in 7 days
● 3 page views in 3 days
Example: Set up “resized” audiences for ongoing development
Behavioral category affinity: 3 page views in 7 days
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If we provide a personalized homepage carousel based on category
affinity, then we will improve PDP views and in turn purchases.
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If we provide a personalized homepage carousel based on category
affinity, then we will improve PDP views and in turn purchases.
Soccer Basketball
Hockey Golf
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Foundations for Personalization Success
Customer Problem First Define / Evolve Audiences
Iterate like a TestIdentify Areas of Friction
● Personalization starts at the same point
● Check problems against audiences
● Where is the disconnect for the audience?
● Plan and design like an a/b test
● Create new solutions for your winners
● Use a/b tests to jumpstart ideas
● Start with the data that’s available
● Document and add in new data points
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Gathering and
Implementing our
Master Object
1ST & 3RD
PARTY DATA
BEHAVIORAL
TARGETING
REAL TIME
INFORMATION
DEMOGRAPHIC
TARGETING
LOCATION
BASED
TARGETING DCP DATA
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Login experiments: Show personalized info based on customer's
data (previous flight, flying frequency, etc.)
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The goal to make customers feel like we know them, their
needs, and they are valued highly.
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What’s next with personalization at Aeromexico?
1. Creating brand new features that can deliver symmetric messaging.
2. Continue to iterate on personalized experiments that were a success (like login experiences) -
there is always room for more improvement and testing within personalization!
3. Use extensions to generate dynamic content to help reduce amount of time to upload new content,
while also allowing us to run multiple promotions at the same time.
4. New focus strategy: Encourage visitors to sign-in. When an user is logged in it is easier for us to
know what customer preferences are and how to better personalize the experience for them.
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Both personalization and testing start with a customer problem. Personalization has
solved many of our customer problems by providing more relevant information to our
customers and showing them that we understand their needs!
Invest the time and effort to make your customer data available for personalization. It
opens up a whole new set of opportunities.
Continue to iterate on your successes. Personalization is not a set-it-and-forget it
strategy. There is always room to find better experiences for your important audiences.
Key Takeaways